The Made-for-Television Movies

Is a two-hour Rockford Files episode a TV movie?Should Banacek be listed as a series or a series of TV movies?Was The Dain Curse a mini-series or a multi-part TV movie?Does a two-hour pilot get listed as a TV movie only if it fails?And what about all those straight-to-cable, straight-to-video or (now) straight-to-streaming flicks?

The way I’m figuring it is:

If it’s one-off, not part of a series, or if it’s tied to no more than two other movies;or if it’s a pilot, successful or otherwise, and

If it was made for television — be it broadcast, streaming or whatever–Then it’s (probably) a made-for-telvision movie.